It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.

I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad campaign, it has been because the product did not interest me.

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.